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Florida attorney Lillian Belle Cleary talks tough, loves tofu, fears toxins, and obsessively hates a mess. Having to deal with a psychic client and a Nazi neighbor is bad enough. Now she's got two dead bodies cluttering up her life—one mired in the Sarasota swamplands, and another mauled by a vineyard harvesting machine. But it's the not-so-shocking murder of one of her firm's most hated partners that really gets her pro-active. The cops think she's hiding something—or worse—so Lilly figures it's up to her to find the root that connects a trio of corpses, and to pick a murderer out of a healthy crop of wacko suspects. But her investigative endeavors may end up bearing very bitter fruit indeed, now that a deadly human predator is moving in for the kill.
Author
Claire Hamner Matturro, a former lawyer and college teacher, is the author of four legal mysteries with a sense of humor. Her books are: Skinny-Dipping (2004) (a BookSense pick, Romantic Times’Best First Mystery, and nominated for a Barry Award); Wildcat Wine (2005) (nominated for a Georgia Writer of the Year Award); Bone Valley(2006) and Sweetheart Deal (2007) (winner of Romantic Times’ Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery), all published by William Morrow. After her romantic suspense legal thriller, Trouble in Tallahassee (KaliOka Press 2017), Claire turned more serious with her newer book, The Smuggler's Daughter (Red Adept Publishing July 2020) and she returns to the Gulf Coast of Florida that she knows so well in a gripping mystery. And look for her newest book Wayward Girls, her joint-writing adventure with Penny Koepsel, which was released in August of this year. Claire remains active in writers’ groups, teaches creative writing in adult education, and write reviews for Southern Literary Review. Visit her at www.clairematturro.com
